Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT for Barton County, Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 122014 SVRSGF MOC011-217-122100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 315 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...NORTHERN BARTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...VERNON COUNTY AT 315 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PITTSBURG KANSAS. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWN OF LIBERAL IN NORTHWEST BARTON COUNTY AROUND 330 PM AND THEN REACH NEAR NEVADA BY 4 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. RIDDLE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 11:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-122340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1139 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995 ...HIGH RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI TONIGHT... THERE IS A HIGH RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ALONG AND WEST OF A SEDALIA...SPRINGFIELD...TO BRANSON LINE. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL RACE EAST ACROSS THE ROCKIES TODAY AND MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS REGION TONIGHT. A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AND REACH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AFTER DARK. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...A GOOD FIRST ESTIMATE TIME WISE WOULD BETWEEN 10 PM AND 3 AM. FURTHER EAST...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI FOR LATE TONIGHT. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AS THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR LATER FORECASTS AND ANY WATCH/WARNING INFORMATION. SPOTTERS AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION...AND BE READY FOR ACTIVIATION TONIGHT. RIDDLE
Special weather statement, May 12, 2:33 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-130140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 230 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... ...MAINLY DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. SOUTH WINDS IS TRANSPORTING MOISTURE INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL BE MORE OF THE PULSE VARIETY AS THEY INCREASE AND THEN DECREASE IN INTENSITY. THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS AND PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED UNTIL LATER TONIGHT AS A SQUALL LINE FORMS IN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVES RAPIDLY EAST. THE LINE OF SEVERE STORMS IS NOT LIKELY TO REACH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THEN EXIT THE AREA AROUND DAWN SATURDAY MORNING. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AS THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR LATER FORECASTS AND ANY WATCH/WARNING INFORMATION. SPOTTERS AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION...AND BE READY FOR ACTIVIATION TONIGHT. R>IDDLE
Special weather statement, May 12, 2:57 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-130140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 230 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... ...MAINLY DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. SOUTH WINDS IS TRANSPORTING MOISTURE INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL BE MORE OF THE PULSE VARIETY AS THEY INCREASE AND THEN DECREASE IN INTENSITY. THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS AND PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED UNTIL LATER TONIGHT AS A SQUALL LINE FORMS IN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVES RAPIDLY EAST. THE LINE OF SEVERE STORMS IS NOT LIKELY TO REACH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THEN EXIT THE AREA AROUND DAWN SATURDAY MORNING. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AS THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADOES. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR LATER FORECASTS AND ANY WATCH/WARNING INFORMATION. SPOTTERS AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION...AND BE READY FOR ACTIVIATION TONIGHT. RIDDhLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 41 min |
| May 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.